Honiton is in the "west-country" approx 3 hours drive from me (near the funny pointy bottom left of the UK, nowhere near where Blackmore was brought up but only about an hour from where he was born in Weston...
Did you know that Ritchie also went to the same school as me, so I'm told, but not at the same time, and we both worked at Heathrow, again not at the same time - quite a coincidence really...